If you travel by Amtrak or MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter) trains between Baltimore and Washington, DC, then you may have noticed a small masonry building at Odenton Station. This small museum is a branch of the
Odenton Heritage Society, and is housed in a former Citizens State Bank building at 1402 Odenton Road, constructed in 1917. This was the first bank for the town, which developed due to the military population at Camp Meade. However, the structure was only used as a bank until 1918. Since then the building has been a shop and a parcel post office, but was vacant from 1966 to 1989, when the Odenton Heritage Society acquired and restored this small but historic edifice. The train has been an important part of the building’s history, as the former bank was even moved in 1945 to make way for the station and now serves as an informative respite for train travelers and an advertisement for the Heritage Society. (The society’s main center is at 1367 Odenton Road.)
